Synonyms for increase
ɪnˈkris; ˈɪn krisin·crease

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.0 / 3 votes

1. increasenoun

   to become larger.

   Synonyms:
   rise, increment, gain, raise, soar, go up, up, shoot up, grow

   Antonyms:
   decrement, plunge, cut, lower, fall, go down, reduce, drop, decrease, sink, plummet, shrink, reduction, shrinkage, loss, lowering

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. increase

   To add is to increase by adjoining or uniting: in distinction from multiply, which is to increase by repeating. To augment a thing is to increase it by any means, but this word is seldom used directly of material objects; we do not augment a house, a farm, a nation, etc. We may enlarge a house, a farm, or an empire, extend influence or dominion, augment riches, power or influence, attach or annex a building to one that it adjoins or papers to the document they refer to, annex a clause or a codicil, affix a seal or a signature, annex a territory, attach a condition to a promise. A speaker may amplify a discourse by a fuller treatment throughout than was originally planned, or he may append or subjoin certain remarks without change of what has gone before. We cast up or sum up an account, though add up and make up are now more usual expressions.

   Synonyms:
   add, adjoin, affix, amplify, annex, append, attach, augment, cast up, enlarge, extend, join on, make up, subjoin, sum up

   Antonyms:
   abstract, deduct, diminish, dissever, lessen, reduce, remove, subtract, withdraw

   Preposition:
   Other items are to be added to the account.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. increaseverb

   Synonyms:
   advance, heighten, dilutenhance, aggregate, pile up, raise, magnify, spread

2. increasenoun

   Synonyms:
   acception, growth, extension

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. addition, increase, gainnoun

   a quantity that is added

   "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks"

   Synonyms:
   add-on, profit, improver, summation, amplification, growth, increment, addition, accession, step-up, plus, gain

   Antonyms:
   lessening, diminution, decrement, drop-off, reduction, decrease, step-down, diminish, lessen, fall, minify

2. increasenoun

   a change resulting in an increase

   "the increase is scheduled for next month"

   Synonyms:
   addition, increment, gain, step-up, growth

   Antonyms:
   decrease, decrement, reduction, step-down, lessening, diminution, drop-off, lessen, fall, minify, diminish

3. increase, increment, growthnoun

   a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

   "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"

   Synonyms:
   ontogenesis, gain, growth, emergence, growing, addition, ontogeny, development, maturation, increment, outgrowth, step-up

   Antonyms:
   drop-off, decrease, reduction, decrement, step-down, lessening, diminution, diminish, fall, lessen, minify

4. increase, incrementnoun

   the amount by which something increases

   "they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare"

   Synonyms:
   addition, increment, gain, step-up, growth

   Antonyms:
   decrease, decrement, reduction, diminution, step-down, drop-off, lessening, diminish, fall, lessen, minify

5. increase, step-upverb

   the act of increasing something

   "he gave me an increase in salary"

   Synonyms:
   addition, increment, gain, step-up, growth

   Antonyms:
   lessening, decrease, step-down, decrement, diminution, reduction, drop-off, fall, minify, lessen, diminish

6. increaseverb

   become bigger or greater in amount

   "The amount of work increased"

   Antonyms:
   decrement, diminution, step-down, decrease, reduction, lessening, drop-off, lessen, fall, minify, diminish

7. increaseverb

   make bigger or more

   "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted"

   Antonyms:
   step-down, drop-off, decrement, decrease, diminution, lessening, reduction, minify, lessen, fall, diminish

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Change Magnitude
   • Process

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. make bigger

   Submitted by anonymous on December 18, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. increaseverb

   Synonyms:
   grow, augment, be augmented, become greater or larger

2. increaseverb

   Synonyms:
   multiply, be fruitful

3. increaseverb

   Synonyms:
   augment, enlarge, make greater, make larger

4. increaseverb

   Synonyms:
   enhance, raise, advance, heighten, add to

5. increaseverb

   Synonyms:
   extend, prolong

6. increaseverb

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, intensify

7. increasenoun

   Synonyms:
   augmentation, enlargement, extension, expansion, growth, addition, accession, increment

8. increasenoun

   Synonyms:
   product, produce, gain, profit

9. increasenoun

   Synonyms:
   offspring, issue, progeny, descendants

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. increasenoun

   Synonyms:
   augmentation, accretion, increment, accession, amplification, addition, accrument

2. increaseverb

   Synonyms:
   augment, advance, enlarge, multiply, be prolific, wax, aggravate, enhance, extend, augment, intensify, exacerbate, amplify, magnify, heighten, accelerate

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "increase":

   rise, increasing, increased, enhance, growth, raise, increases, improve, grow, strengthen, increment, expand, augment, enhancing, boost, raising, surge, intensify, augmentation, growing, expansion, strengthening, rising, enhancement, improving, greater, upsurge, heighten, reinforce, enhanced, progression, broaden, improvement, escalation, 'augmentation, extend, hike, further, more, expanding, redouble, intensification, higher, additional, augmenting, mark-up, build, widen, add, enlarge, rises, multiply

How to pronounce increase?

How to say increase in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use increase in a sentence?

1. Joe Zhou:

   During the fourth quarter, we saw an increase in trading volume as more people entered the property market after the government loosened policies, we expect this trend to continue.

2. Renee Steiber:

   The prices were way up, it's really sad when you are talking about meeting a child's basic needs, that people will take advantage of the situation and increase the prices.

3. Johnson:

   Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.

4. George Will:

   She wants a twenty-third increase in the minimum wage since 1938, free community college, which means someone else to pay for it besides the people getting the education, and at the end of it all, inequality is what she’s going to stress.

5. President Kenyatta:

   I'm of the mind, fellow Kenyans, that we in government should take better care of your money before we ask for your taxes and we are therefore going to insist that we have no increase in overall government tax in the next financial year.